A method of discovering addressing information of one or more upstream devices to respond to specific messages by a second device on behalf of the one or more upstream devices in a network includes acquiring the addressing information in an upstream direction from one or more downstream devices to the one or more upstream devices. The method further includes acquiring the addressing information in a downstream direction from the one or more upstream devices to the one or more downstream devices. The method further includes responding to specific messages using the acquired addressing information about the one or more upstream devices.
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2. The method of claim 1 wherein said SOAM functions is selected from the group consisting of monitoring traffic, diagnosing issues, remote loopback and performance testing.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said SOAM capable device is a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said SOAM capable device is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
6. The system of claim 5 wherein said SOAM functions is selected from the group consisting of monitoring traffic, diagnosing issues, remote loopback and performance testing.
7. The system of claim 5 wherein said SOAM capable device is a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
8. The method of claim 5 wherein said SOAM capable device is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
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